On Friday morning, I arose early to find the Bow Valley enveloped in fog. Since the forecast had called for a bright, cloudless day I checked it again and found that the Weather Channel was sticking with its prediction. Clear and sunny. I had plans to go to Kananasksis with my friend and fellow photographer, Bob Bear and had initially thought we might be doomed. I realized that the fog would burn off and sunny skies would prevail. I also realized that the transition from fogbound to sunny would yield better photo opportunities than we had hoped for. So, away we went!
The first place we stopped is an old favourite, the Wedge Pond. I’ve been here many times but it’s never repetitious. Yesterday was no exception, the clearing mist and early morning sunshine created excellent conditions for photography. This first photograph is one of many I got from that area. I was pleased with them all but I think I like this one best. It features the Fortress (reflected in the Pond) and Mount Galatea to its right. There is mist rising off the pond and heavier fog in some of the valleys in the distance. The area is resplendent in its spring greenery. What more could you want!
We traveled south toward the Kananaskis Lakes, where the sun had not yet cleared the fog and we found very different conditions. I really like this next picture, a shot of the opposite shoreline heavily shrouded in fog. I would have liked it even better had there been a moose grazing in the shallows near the shore. A perfect day for moose!
We turned back north and emerged from the heavy fog into conditions we experienced earlier at the Wedge Pond. As we approached Mount Kidd from the south, we made our final stop of the morning. Mount Kidd boasts two massive peaks. You can see the north peak very clearly on the right; the south peak is largely hidden in the mist rising from the Kananaskis River below.
At the point the highway disappears in the distance, you can see a cut in the rock through which it passes. We stopped there to get some closer shots of Mount Kidd but were briefly sidetracked by an impressive Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep, scrutinizing us from his viewpoint above on the cut’s edge.
These are all I’m going to write about today. I have many more, but I’m short on words for them. If you’d like to hear those photos speak for themselves, look at this slideshow…
